Word: arrests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a part-time county constable from Moulinette, who hadn't made a big arrest in 20 years, heard noises in the empty house next door. The police surrounded the house, yelled, "Come out!" Lama sheepishly came out, bummed a cigaret and said he couldn't have committed the murders because he was in Montreal that day. As Chief Hawkshaw clapped Lama in jail, the Chief sighed: "I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...Villagers, Mr. Taft is praying that no felonies occur at Harvardevens until this knotty legal problem is worked out, since it is reasonably certain that neither Shirley, nor the Common-wealth of Massachusetts, nor the U.S. Army (which surrendered its rights to the site originally) has any power to arrest anyone in the Village. In an emergency Mr. Taft is prepared. He plans to pin on a shiny badge which declares him to be an officer of the law in Shirley, and inveigle the offender outside the limits of the Village. "Then," says Mr. Taft, "I can make an arrest...
...first severe blow fell with the arrest of twelve priests and six laymen, among them, Ivan Shalich, the Archbishop's secretary. The charge: collaboration with the Ustashi, terrorist organization of the Croat fascist Ante Pavelich. Then the prosecutor prepared Stepanic's indictment...
Technically charged with possessing narcotics, but not under arrest, Ross will go to the U.S. Public Health Service hospital for drug addicts, in Lexington, Ky. The hospital was established a decade ago to end the old policy of throwing addicts in jail like criminals. Of the 792 narcotic patients now at Lexington, 650 are under prison sentence for narcotics-law violations, 42 are on probation, 100 are volunteers (like Ross...
...against a wide variety of diseases by a National Research Council committee headed by Boston's Dr. Chester S. Keefer. Their report, in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association added up the results in 1,000 cases. Highlight of their report: streptomycin definitely can arrest tuberculosis, but it is too costly at present for practical general treatment...